Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-06-18

ions are somewhat divided between the
good and Indifferent reports l hear"
Said Colonel Carhart: "In what re-
spect do you desire to hear about the
Panhandle? Do you mean as a country
for farming, stock raising, picturesque
scenery, present development or future
possibilities"
The new conner studied moment and
responded
81 want to know all about it socially,
geographically, financially and pros
rectively."
This gave the gentleman from the wild,
untutored west ample range over which
TO travel, and he commenced;
"GoD's COUNTRY"
"The Panhandle is Gods chosen
country. On II he seems to have lavlshed
hisSdolcest gifts. In that region which,
no many, is terra incoguito, there is oil
that the most industrious imsgi-
nation can conceive - all that
! the most eXactiDg could ask.
As "a stock raising country it has no su-
perior. The indigenous grasses grow
with pTodigal luxuriance, and at all times
and in all Seasons OF the year cattle find
ample sustenance and mOre-they are
| kept fat and marketable st all times.
SCENERY.
Gas to the physical appearance of the
country, | can hardly find language to
properly describe it. Just imagine"
continued Colonel Csrhart with
animation, "a perfect infnity
of beauty and expansive grandeur;
grand rolling prsiries, carpeted with
waving grasses, which extend in all diTec
tiCns as far as the eye can see; beautiful
undulations to relieve the m0notony OF
the otherwise unvaTying sheen of emerald
spread out beyond the Visions reach and
kissing the horizon at every point of the
compass. Why, sir, you might as well
attempt to paint the battle OF Waterloo
with a WhiteWash brush as to attempt to
portray the beauties of the Panhandle with
words. In the effort, language becomes at
once q craving mendiCant and bank
rupt. The bOunless eXpsnse Of fertile
soil stretching, far beyond the artificial
perspective created by field glasses, i'm
press one with the immensely of Texas
the immensely of the American Union
and when we realize that these are but
the alphabet of measurement, we are i'm
pressed with the immensely OF space ard
the insi9nifcance of man. No man can
be mean, or little, or picagunish
in the west; ride over our
prairies has the effect Ct expanding
ones heart and ideas, so that the miser
from the most congested districts of the
over-crowded centers of population can
not remain among US fortnight
without becoming what he himself
would esteem, at mis- home, devotee of
liberalism and victim of prodigslity.
Everything is great and grand out there;
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boundless space as though emerging
from tabled wind caves and scam
pering over the broad ocean; the
sun shines down through pure ether,
and the shadows Of vagrant clouds which
sometimes feck the green sward, serve
only to relieve, gently, the oppressive
ness of illimitable beauty and
light. There is nothing small,
nothing mean, nothing meager,
or circumscribed in that country; every
thing bespeaks amplitude, unrestrained
liberty, prinevel purity. Even the walls
of the world seem far removed beyond
the rolling hilltops, giving space to &C
ton and imagination
THE SOIL.
Captain Adamson had moved his chair
back until it touched lamp post and
THE GAZETTE scribe took refuge in the
open street. The new conner, in his
amusement mumbled something about
"soil," when Colonel Csrhert came down
from astride the ray of rhetoric upon
which he mad been riding and continued:
"The soil is dark chalky loan, ad-
mirsbly adapted to the production of all
kinds of farm products. We have veg
etables of ell sorts in abundance and
need buy nothing but pepper
and salt. Peas, beans, radishes, carrots,
onions, tomatoes end all manner Of gar
den truck grow il abundance, and IS for
oats and other cereals the country can
not be beaten by aIybody's country. We
have this year some 100 acres in oats
which will yield on an average Of from
fifty to sixty. five bushels to the acre and
agriculture is only in its infancy. The
elevation is about the same as Lincoln,
Nebraska, and certainly the soil is more
genial and saIubrious. l would not
trade 1t for any climate under the sun.
There IS but little farming relatively, be-
cause people find 1t easier and more
profitable to raise cattle, but in time the
country will be as densely populated IS
New York state. Immigration is fast
filling up the country, and we Will soon
have voting population eousl to the
most populous counties of Middle Texas.
And the scenery isl
"Hcld on" said Captain ADAM
son, rising in perfect desperation,
"you have mentioned that before. Let
us 60 around to the rooms OF the Young
Mems Christian Association, where have